I think most of the population has simply been conditioned to accept and even expect advertisements to be a normal part of everyday life.
Maybe it’s a situation where ignorance is bliss, to not have ads pull your attention away from what you’re doing, and not feel like they are violating your personal space and resources.
But that’s also part of living modern life on auto pilot like The Shareholders prefer. Work, consume, engage with content, repeat!
If I were you, I would find who owns that gas station. Then hand write an actual physical letter and mail it to them, explaining why you only get gas at their station. That could make enough impression that when that station’s owner is tempted to put in ads, they’ll remember you. Maybe that will be enough to get them to not follow the crowd and to keep their pumps ad-free.
I love it, and now that you’ve said that I am going to be keeping mental notes to see if I have such an option. Fortunately, buying gasoline is a pretty infrequent thing for me.
I would also love to know where that habit lands you in the greater population’s percentiles when it comes to avoiding advertising. I assume most people reading our comments are already the 1% because it’s Lemmy, lol. (my usual is Linux + LibreWolf + ublock origin at both home and work)
Personally, I am likely within a very small percentile of people when it comes to be privacy aware. I use Linux + Librewolf, but also self host Searxng and have it do all my internet searches through Mulvad, I host my own recursive DNS server, and various other things that most people wouldn’t even know are an option.
Sometimes it’s like I’m living a double life because I’m married to a normie and we’re active in the local community where normies of course abound. I got my piracy over here, and I pay for a couple streaming services over there as long as they actually get used, but I still take steps to keep ads away.
It’s wild when my wife will just turn on the radio in the car when her phone isn’t connected properly, or throw on some live TV stream (whether pirated or a plan somebody shared with us), and it will play minute after minute of ads that don’t bother her.
On the car radio it usually doesn’t take long before some annoying local dealership ad comes on that repeats the same loud annoying crap they did 20 years ago and I have to turn it off.
I just listen to the main public broadcast radio station in my car. Ads? Only for the album of the week and their own programmes. Usually a few seconds to mention something and very infrequent.
I think most of the population has simply been conditioned to accept and even expect advertisements to be a normal part of everyday life.
Maybe it’s a situation where ignorance is bliss, to not have ads pull your attention away from what you’re doing, and not feel like they are violating your personal space and resources.
But that’s also part of living modern life on auto pilot like The Shareholders prefer. Work, consume, engage with content, repeat!
I go out of my way to get my all of my gas from one specific station that doesn’t have advertisements on their pumps.
If it’s Costco, I agree.
The membership pays for itself. I’m paying $3-10 less for gas every time I fill up, every month.
Shit, am I an advertisement?
If I were you, I would find who owns that gas station. Then hand write an actual physical letter and mail it to them, explaining why you only get gas at their station. That could make enough impression that when that station’s owner is tempted to put in ads, they’ll remember you. Maybe that will be enough to get them to not follow the crowd and to keep their pumps ad-free.
That’s a really good idea, I think I’ll look into it
I love it, and now that you’ve said that I am going to be keeping mental notes to see if I have such an option. Fortunately, buying gasoline is a pretty infrequent thing for me.
I would also love to know where that habit lands you in the greater population’s percentiles when it comes to avoiding advertising. I assume most people reading our comments are already the 1% because it’s Lemmy, lol. (my usual is Linux + LibreWolf + ublock origin at both home and work)
Personally, I am likely within a very small percentile of people when it comes to be privacy aware. I use Linux + Librewolf, but also self host Searxng and have it do all my internet searches through Mulvad, I host my own recursive DNS server, and various other things that most people wouldn’t even know are an option.
I only pirate. And play it on raspberry pi, libre elec and dumb tv. I never see commercials.
It amazes me that anybody can stand that filth for even a second.
Nice. Jellyfin fan here.
Sometimes it’s like I’m living a double life because I’m married to a normie and we’re active in the local community where normies of course abound. I got my piracy over here, and I pay for a couple streaming services over there as long as they actually get used, but I still take steps to keep ads away.
It’s wild when my wife will just turn on the radio in the car when her phone isn’t connected properly, or throw on some live TV stream (whether pirated or a plan somebody shared with us), and it will play minute after minute of ads that don’t bother her.
On the car radio it usually doesn’t take long before some annoying local dealership ad comes on that repeats the same loud annoying crap they did 20 years ago and I have to turn it off.
I just listen to the main public broadcast radio station in my car. Ads? Only for the album of the week and their own programmes. Usually a few seconds to mention something and very infrequent.